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Cooking Stove.

Patented June 15, 1869.

GEORGE MAYER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 91,357, and June 15, 1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern a and us'et'ul lmprovement iu Cook-Stoves; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descri tiou thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification.

This is an improvement in the ash-receptacle of cookstoves, whereby are combined the advantages of ready and cleanly removal of ashes, separation of dust and ashes from the nnconsumed embers, 850.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the trout part of a stove, embodying my improvement, the sifter being 0 en.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the stove, the sifter being detached.

Fi ure 3 is a similar view, with the sifter in place and c osed, and the ash-pan removed.

Figure 4 is a transverse section of the ash-pit, sifter, and ash-pan, in position.

' The ash-pit A has, at that part of it nearest to the fire-place, an aperture, B, which is closable, by a sifter,

consisting of two similar gratings, O D, of which one, 0, is secured at rest by engaging under lugs, E and the upper one, D, has a lug, d, which is screw-threaded, to receh e a correspondingly screw-threaded rod, F, by means or which it is capable of beingmoved over the lower grating, so as to open or close at will the interstices thereof; or by unscrewing the rod F, both gratiugs are liberated for removal, (as in fig. 2,) in case it is desired to. empty the entire bulk of ashes into the ash-pan.

The ash-pan G has in-turned flanges on rim's, g, which slide over the out-turned flanges H, on the bottom plate of the ash-pit.

When it is desired to separate the cinders or embers from the dust and ashes, the upper grate is reciprocated over the lower one, so as to precipitate the ashes, 850., into the pan; after which the interstices of the grating may be closed, and the ash-pan re- 4 moved.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- The combination with the ashit A,.having an aperture, B, lugs E, and flanges H arranged substantially as herein described, of the gratings O I),

removable handle F, and the removable ash-pan G,

constructed, arranged, and employed substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto-set my GEORGE MAYER.

.hand.

Witnesses v Gno. H. KNIGHT, J AS. H. LAYMAN. 

